Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 13b - Transportation
17 - Encroachment Permit Regulations
Rules of Practice
Article ONE - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 1 - Scope and Construction of Rules and Conduct
Section 13b-17-110a - Rules of conduct of parties, intervenors and representatives

(a) A party or intervenor may appear in person or by representative. The representative shall be deemed to have appeared as the agent of said party or intervenor. Each party, intervenor or representative thereof shall promptly file, with the agency, a written notification of appearance. Any person appearing on behalf of the party or intervenor is deemed to be authorized to act on behalf of said party or intervenor.

(b) Each person making an appearance before the commissioner is subject to the agency's regulatory jurisdiction in connection with any hearing and shall promptly notify the agency, in writing, in order that same may be made a part of the record.

(c) The Rules of Professional Ethics and the Code of Judicial Conduct as adopted and approved by the Judges of the Superior Court shall govern the conduct of all attorneys in any proceeding before the agency on behalf of any public or private person, firm, corporation or association.

(d) Any attorney, agent, representative or any other person present at any proceeding before the agency who engages in disruptive behavior or misconduct that prevents or disrupts an orderly hearing or proceeding may be removed from or limited in further participation, at the discretion of the commissioner.

(e) Any person who testifies falsely to any material fact in any contested case wherein he has given oath or affirmation or who willfully falsifies any account, book, paper, record, report, financial statement or any other exhibit that is made a part of the record in any contested case with the intent to mislead or deceive the commissioner shall be referred to the state's attorney for prosecution, as provided by law.